The movie, streaming on Netflix, dramatises the writing of “Citizen Kane” through the eyes of Herman J Mankiewicz, who received top billing on the shared screenplay credit with Welles. Fincher’s movie, using a screenplay by his father, Jack Fincher, implies that Mankiewicz was the principal author of the script. For Welles scholars, the idea that Mankiewicz alone wrote “Citizen Kane” is an old falsehood, and its continued repetition may testify to the staying power of “Citizen Kane.”“It’s the greatest film ever made, it has the longest track record of representing what cinema can be, and who’s responsible for making it that way is a continuing story,” Harlan Lebo, author of “Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey,” an exhaustive account of the movie’s making, said. Mercury Theatre’s radio writers typically didn’t get credit, and Mankiewicz had waived his claim to authorship of “Kane” in a contract with the company. It wouldn’t detract from Mankiewicz’s genius and Welles’ genius.”To Fincher, the point of “Mank” isn’t who wrote what.

Source: bd News24 December 13, 2020 04:18 UTC